The fresh contemporary home in Hollywood Hills West is nicknamed the Solarium for its voluminous step-down living room, which has a wall of steel-framed windows. Listed for $9.995 million, the multi-level house has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in more than 6,500 square feet of space. Theres also separate guest quarters. Museum-like interiors feature gallery walls and high ceilings ideal for showcasing artwork. The chefs kitchen is equipped with an island and French doors that open to the backyard. (Marc Angeles / Unlimited Style Real Estate Photography)

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Hot Property Newsletter: Hell need a bigger purse to hold his millions

Nov. 2, 2019

We dont always get to walk the halls of L.A.s mega-mansions. But sometimes we do.

A small entourage from The Times was fortunate enough to get inside the Bel-Air new build that recently sold for $94 million. What impressed nearly as much as the luxury bells and whistles was that the owner-developer took us around himself. One caveat: We had to leave our bags at the door. An unusual request, but we complied. As he handed them back to us at the end of the tour his gaze lingered over our pedestrian purses, perhaps with a look of pity in his eyes. This man, after all, made his fortune selling handbags.

Our Home of the Week, set above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Hills West, makes room for art display with its high ceilings, ample natural light and an abundance of gallery-like walls. The dramatic contemporary is priced at $9.995 million. You bring the paintings.

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Neal Leitereg, Jack Flemming and Lauren Beale

$94 million is in the bag

After testing the waters two years ago with an asking price of $250 million, developer and handbag magnate

has sold his grand mansion in Bel-Air for $94 million.

The 38,000-square-foot monument to opulence contains 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms and luxury goodies galore. Its L.A. Countys third most expensive home sale this year.

In addition to three kitchens and five bars, the residence has a Louis Vuitton-appointed bowling alley, a 40-seat movie theater, a massage studio, a fitness center and a candy room with dozens of sweets-filled cylinders. Two wine cellars are stocked with hundreds of bottles of Champagne and other fine wine.

Outside, more than 17,000 square feet of entertainment decks overlook Los Angeles. The back patio is anchored by an 85-foot infinity pool with a swim-up bar.

Actors lair is expendable

Action-thriller actor

and model

have listed their Malibu beach house for sale at $19.95 million.

The black-shingled contemporary contains 3,909 square feet of sexy interiors that look out on a horizon of ocean. Among the living spaces are the main living area with a brick fireplace, the dining area, a den, a family room, four bedrooms and four bathrooms. A guest house has its own kitchen and bathroom.

Statham, 52, has been in the Fast & Furious, Expendables and Transporter films

including this years Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

Huntington-Whiteley, 32, is known for her modeling work for Victorias Secret and the British fashion house Burberry.

Checking out of Los Feliz

Billionaire

has sold the Ennis House, a Mayan Revival-style home in Los Feliz designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, for $18 million.

The temple-like homes exotic look has made it a filming location for movies such as Blade Runner, Rush Hour, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Karate Kid Part III.

Wright designed the house in the 1920s using thousands of precast concrete blocks. Marble floors, ornate chandeliers, beamed ceilings, concrete columns, leaded glass windows and mosaic-tile finishes grace the two-story floor plan.

A guesthouse and swimming pool complete the 0.84-acre grounds.

Burkle, 66, built his fortune buying and selling supermarket chains such as Ralphs, Fred Meyer Inc. and Food4Less. Forbes estimates his net worth at $1.6 billion. He bought the property for $4.5 million in 2011 and oversaw a significant restoration.

He voices his price opinion

Family Guy voice actor

has listed his showplace in Hollywood Hills West linked through records to radio personality Larry Elder is back on the market at $5.2 million. Its also available for lease, furnished, at $25,000 a month.

The updated home, built in 1959 and set on two acres, centers on an open-plan two-story family room with a fireplace and bar. The formal dining room includes a wine refrigerator. High ceilings and walls of glass add to the expansive feel of the 4,690 square feet of living space.

The detached one-bedroom guest house has a bathroom and a kitchen for a total of four bedrooms and six bathrooms. Views take in the cityscape and an infinity-edge lap pool and spa.

Elder, 67, is an attorney, an author and longtime radio talk show host. His The Larry Elder Show was also a television series from 2004 to 2005. In recent years, he has made appearances on Fox and Friends, Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Her favorite room

Actress Jane Seymours favorite room her bedroom in her modern, 6,300-square-foot Tudor-style home in Malibu reflects her skills and interests. Theres art nouveau, theres Hollywood glam, theres beach house, theres modern art. I wanted the room to be a mixture of everything I love, said Seymour, 68, who co-stars in the newly released second season of The Kominsky Method, on Netflix.

From the archives

Ten years ago, singer Melanie Brown, also known as Scary Spice from her days with the Spice Girls, purchased a gated home in the San Fernando Valley area for about $3.15 million. The country French-style house had five bedrooms and eight bathrooms in more than 8,000 square feet of living space. The chateau, its 1,352-square-foot detached media house and a swimming pool sat on more than half an acre.

Twenty years ago, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea sold his Los Feliz home for about $3.5 million to John Getty, a son of Getty Oil heir Gordon Getty and a grandson of the late

, once the richest man in the world. The Moorish-style house, known for years as the Castle, contained 5,500 square feet of living space.

Thirty years ago, actor Lou Diamond Phillips became a first-time home buyer spending $1 million on a house in the Hollywood Hills. The 1920s home had three bedrooms, maid's quarters and a den in about 4,500 square feet.

What were reading

Basketball great Shaquille ONeal has donated housing to 12-year-old Isaiah Payton and his family. The boy was shot and paralyzed while leaving a high school football game in Atlanta in August. When ONeal learned that Payton couldnt be released from the hospital because his home was not equipped to accommodate his disability, the onetime Lakers center offered up a years rent plus some furniture, according to 11Alive.com.

Ready to escape the city? Curbed.com spotted a mini-compound near Guerneville, Calif., for sale at $299,000. The 6.7-acre Russian River Valley property includes a 320-square-foot main cabin and a detached 144-square-foot sleeping cabin.